What Are The Sources Of Anti-Semitism?http://www.businessinsider.com/why-do-people-hate-jews-2012-5/comments.rss?IR=T
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:55:08 -0400Henry Blodgethttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51d126bb3f7a636000004yibberatTue, 29 May 2012 15:01:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51d126bb3f7a636000004
Mocking someone/something without even attempting to understand it - while even pretending that the very attempt to understand it is a fool's errand - is exactly what ultimately leads to lynch mobs (ie groups that act/do without any semblance of thinking about what they are doing ahead of time).
Understanding something does not mean excusing it or rationalizing it. Even the most inexcusable form of anti-semitism by Hitler can be understood. In Mein Kampf, he explains his first anti-Jewish experiences (media sources that he considered "anti-German" in a declining Austro-Hungarian empire and local labor union leaders who he hated). And after World War One, the dolchstoßlegende (true, partially true, or false) fits right into his preconceptions and prejudices. NONE of that remotely excuses or rationalizes where he then went with his hatreds.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51cfbecad042612000008Jay RedmanTue, 29 May 2012 15:01:15 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51cfbecad042612000008
All of them are factual and present. One need only look at the daily newspapers and what is going on in our Congress. Other than the obvious (Jews being more successful and intelligent), here are other reasons.
A religious law book was published in 2009 giving permission to kill non-Jews even if they are non-combatants. This included children. Israeli court has not seen it as a problem. Here is the article:
<a href="http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=271729" target="_blank">http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=271729</a>
Most recently the blacks have been the target of hatred. We know what happens to Palestinians when they get out of order but now the blacks (yes, they are Jewish) are game as well. Take a look:
<a href="http://972mag.com/community-shaken-after-coordinated-attacks-on-african-refugees/43727/" target="_blank">http://972mag.com/community-shaken-after-coordinated-attacks-on-african-refugees/43727/</a>
In case you are visiting Israel, and you are not a Jew, and you happen to get sick on Shabbot, you had better watch out. The religious leaders have made a pronouncement that they cannot treat you if you are not a Jew. Again, take a look.
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4229767,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4229767,00.html</a>
It is not easy for us living in the US. If we disagree with something that the Rabbi tells us we are in trouble. A number of us who blog against the Rabbis have been threatened. Take a look what the proposal is by the head of the biggest sect. Yes, it is excommunication, for disagreeing.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eypXt7EpMmQ&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eypXt7EpMmQ&feature=player_embedded</a>
And, if you think it is an isolated incident, this hatred for all non-Jews, then take a look. The person speaking is pretty powerful. This is what he thinks of you non-Jews.
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4232004,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4232004,00.html</a>
I bet that not too many of you have heard that you, meaning US, are now protecting Israel. One of our own, Eric Cantor, put through a bill through Congress last week. That bill essentially states that Israel gets the same type of protection as a NATO country but with the added benefit of getting all of our second hand defense weapons for bargain basement prices. Read the bill and see what it says about our F35.
<a href="http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=269379" target="_blank">http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=269379</a>
By the way, while the Congress was voting on this and US was negotiating with Iran, Israel was making deals with China to sell them weapons. Just Google it if you don't believe me.
I guess one of the points that I am getting at is that Israel is getting such special favors and we Jews are the ones who suffer the consequences, here in US. Why? Because our Congress and our Senate as well as our presidential candidates feel they need to kiss you know what in order to get elected. This is insidious. It permeates every aspect of society. For example, for the last couple of years we have been trying to get justice for hundreds of victims of child sex abuse in Brooklyn. But, thanks to Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes and his very powerful friends in the community, the boys and girls in the Jewish community cannot get justice. Let me ask you how long it would take if this were the case in a Catholic community? How about a black community? But, it is fine to rape little Jewish kids and get away, right? That is why we have a problem of hate. And us Jews are just as sick as the rest of society. It only takes couple of them to spoil it for everyone else. You said you wanted facts so we shall see if you really will go through with it and print it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51cd16bb3f7c336000002RBWTue, 29 May 2012 15:00:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51cd16bb3f7c336000002
I think people hate because of fear and lack of understanding, and I think that's human nature. Once we have experienced something and can wrap our brains around it objectively, we're less likely to be afraid or project hate. If a person lacks the capacity to be objective, they'll probably always express hatred toward people, things, whatever, regardless, IMO.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51c6769bedd242a000003Andrew HallTue, 29 May 2012 14:58:47 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51c6769bedd242a000003
That's another thing I note about Zionists and their supporters : lots of insults and abuse. :)
You have a good day. It's too nice a day here in California to take this troll bait.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51b96eab8ea6613000002Andrew HallTue, 29 May 2012 14:55:18 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51b96eab8ea6613000002
Please drop this notion of "pure-blood Ashkenazi" being somehow superior to others, or that those with higher IQ are superior. You sound like one of the Death Eaters from Harry Potter.
I dare say that Ashkenazi Jews score higher on the IQ tests because we wrote a great many of the tests. ;P IQ is a horrible predictor of success, and this is coming from a part-Ashkenaz who was tested at 148 and 167 on the two official tests I took. If anything, my shiksa mother had a lot more to do with my education than my half-Ashkenaz father.
As part Ashkenaz myself, I feel the people love to hate many in the Ashkenaz because a lot of Ashkenaz have this idea that they are better than other Jews, and indeed people - and in that direction lies the way many Zionists treat Ethiopian Jews, et cetera. Maybe "pure-blood" world Ashkenazim should drop this notion that Ashkenazi Jews are smarter, better, victimized, et cetera, and you will be better liked? I seem to remember this kind of thinking was used to justify the Ringworm Children scandal as well, where about 6,000 children of non-Ashkenaz Jews immigrating to Israel died of forcible irradation before they could be allowed into the Holy Land. The official explanation is that the authorities feared ringworm; I mostly just think many of the Ashkenaz Zionists running the immigration bureaus thought non-Ashkenaz Jews were "dirty" and got scared.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworm_affair" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworm_affair</a>
People are people. Live and let live, and end these notions of IQ-based racial superiority. They are routinely used to justify terrible attitudes and discrimination.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51ac969bedd8b20000011SimonTue, 29 May 2012 14:51:53 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51ac969bedd8b20000011
you're an idiot. You are generalizing about zionists and religious people the same way people generalize about the Jews as a whole. Did you know there are over 60 different Zionist movements - each with their own goals and objectives? Didn't think so. Because you are an idiot.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc519b26bb3f71e2c00001eÉlyse BettersTue, 29 May 2012 14:47:14 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc519b26bb3f71e2c00001e
I disagree with "NOTE 2" in this post: The original title of this post was "Why Do People Hate Jews?", as indicated by the post's URL [<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-do-people-hate-jews-2012-5" target="_blank">http://www.businessinsider.com/why-do-people-hate-jews-2012-5</a>]. Mr. Blodget only specified "some people" after it made commenters furious. The current title is definitely more appropriate; however, this post itself is not.
If you would like to be educated, Mr. Blodget, on the sources of anti-Semitism, please do so through traditional means. Moreover, refrain from publishing further spontaneous posts that are not well-thought out and are riddled with offensive questions. These types of actions only propagate the conflict of your post, as well as humiliate those implicated, thus demeaning your sole intention.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc518c3eab8ea0e0e000002yibberatTue, 29 May 2012 14:43:15 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc518c3eab8ea0e0e000002
I think there are a couple of reasons.
First, historically a key part of Jewish cultural identity is being outsiders in a foreign land. That is inevitably going to create some separation/conflict when that group is also highly dispersed among ethnic groups whose cultural identity is based on local (whether tribal/personal) loyalties which also means they don't trust outsiders. This isn't really anyone's "fault". Cultural identities are basically self-chosen so it just is. The problem is of course when that conflict goes beyond mere mistrust and manifests as violence. And historically the violence has usually manifested against Jews because ceteris paribas the majority usually oppresses the minority.
Second, there has also historically been a small subset of Jews (used to be called "court jews") who were, in practice, the exact opposite of "outsiders". They were the financiers (for religious reasons that prohibited interest on loans to co-religionists) of monarchs/nobles/governments. The loan payback terms also often meant that Jews become the tax collector/farmer - ie the very visible instrument of local oppression by the local government or were given operating control over state revenue monopolies (mines, etc). They in turn were given unique protections by that local despot who used the loaned funds to fund their local monopoly of force/power/violence. It is no coincidence that medieval pogroms/purges/expulsions almost always followed the death of a local noble/monarch/etc. A debt incurred by a despot who died continues to be collected - and people object violently and try to eliminate these debts by whatever means available. Normal "revolution" stuff - and in a time when no one much cared about "collateral damage" to others.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc518b369bedd1923000008nyshooterTue, 29 May 2012 14:42:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc518b369bedd1923000008
If you answer the question, “why do people hate Jews?” you’ll find the answer to be similar to why do bullies do what they do?
I contend it’s because the hater and the bully tend to be insecure failures in life, and those victims are easy targets upon which to vent their frustrations.
In both cases the victims tend to have achieved more in life, so beating, or just hating them (in their cognitively challenged brains) “settles the score.”http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5185decad04bd0400001aRob robertsTue, 29 May 2012 14:41:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5185decad04bd0400001a
Well first of all some of my best friends are Jewish. i love the Jews they are smart, funny and successful.
I have a Jewish sister in law that I hate. She is selfish, mean and paranoid. She is truly a horrible person. I try not to conflate the ideas that she is Jewish with the horrible person that she is. Her marraige to my brother was horrible, she did nothing but nag him and guilt him over the most petty issues. He escaped though by dying of a brain tumor. Then she went to my parents and begged for his share of the inheritance. I found this greedy and brazen and I had my parents explicitly write her out of the will.
I dunno what my point is other than there are horrible Jews just as there are horrible Christians. Certain Jewish cultural traits might amplify predjudice against them -- selfishness and insularity for example.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc517d0eab8ea2e0800000bUnbelieverTue, 29 May 2012 14:39:12 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc517d0eab8ea2e0800000b
1) A study published in Psychological Science in 2011 by M McDonald et al, showed that: during their fertile period, women have stronger bias against male strangers. This may be part of an evolved mechanism to protect them from sexual coercion.
2) There is signficant evidence going back at least thousands of years that men gathered in groups to wipe out other groups of men and take the women (Again by M McDonald, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society). Rape and genocide (kill all the men and boys and older women; but all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive... - now where have I heard that before) have a long history and men who sucussfully accomplished such would have produced more offspring
3) Our ancestors could have benefitted from avoidance of outsiders who carried disease (especially diseases to which their society hadn't had previous exposure to and therefor a basis of immunity). (J Huang et al. Immunizing Against Prejudice Effects of Disease Protection on Attitudes Toward Out-Groups. Psychological Science, 2011)
While these things may be of less concern in a modern society, in earlier times it may have made biological/evolutionary sense to avoid strangers. Humans have been around for around 700,000 years, or about 35,000 generations. We evolved certain charteristics that benefitted the survival of our genes and their passage to the next generation. It appears that xenophobia - the fear of things that are new or "strange" (including people) - is part of the human genetic makeup. The short time (in evolutionary terms) that modern civilization has existed has simply not been sufficient to change the nature of our beast (even assuming that doing so would be advantageous, not a sure bet).
You can assign all sorts of woo-woo reasoning to why humans hate groups other than their own. It is a matter of bias rooted in biology. We can overcome these base insticts but only with considered thought and action - not something in which the majority of the population normally engages.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51778eab8eaf90500000dYehudaTue, 29 May 2012 14:37:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51778eab8eaf90500000d
are you talking about Moshe dayan? who returned land that was won in a war that was started by Killers? How much more compassionate can the Israelis be?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51726ecad04bf04000011YehudaTue, 29 May 2012 14:36:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51726ecad04bf04000011
False facts,
I have been to Palestine and the People there are hijacked by the Terrorist but can't come to the truth that the Zionist were the best thing that ever happened to the region,
The jobs and help, but the Arabs Must hate the jews so much to allow themselves to Prosper????http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5167d6bb3f7c323000018YehudaTue, 29 May 2012 14:33:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5167d6bb3f7c323000018
I don't think there is a Answer Logically
It may come from the Evil inside the People who have hated, But why do they hate the JEW? why not hate another special people.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc515d16bb3f70f2c000001bittergreenTue, 29 May 2012 14:30:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc515d16bb3f70f2c000001
"I'm going to leave you some gasoline, and some matches, and if any of you Arsonists set anything on fire, I'm going to burn you all."
Seriously, why is this an important question? I think this is probably one of the least important questions ever. Assigning "importance" to it, implies that legitimacy on some level of the activity.
Some people are just ignorant assholes.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5159169beddfc1600000bwesterneduchineseTue, 29 May 2012 14:29:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5159169beddfc1600000b
Also, the kind of person that hates Jews is what you would expect: the coward, a weakling himself, bullied himself and now seeks someone weaker to transfer their anger.
Jew haters here, does this describe you?
That is not the proper way, defeat your bully, not find someone else to bully on.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5157cecad04d204000002dongateleyTue, 29 May 2012 14:29:16 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5157cecad04d204000002
I have long wondered about the same question and wear it as one of a number of filters through which I read history.
I am convinced that, for whatever reason, it is because the Jews demonstrated the gift of intellectual superiority through their contributions to European culture in science, philosophy, literature, business, and more for millennia. Their preponderance in fields requiring intellect and genius far exceeds their proportion of the populations in which they were embedded. Of course they were also not constrained by usury restrictions and consequently gained enormous wealth, power and business accomplishment but I would see that lack of restriction as even more evidence of their intellectual superiority.
As the intelligentsia in the U.S. are learning, superiority can lead to dismissal, hatred and even retribution. The growing influence of the anti-intellectual masses in America clearly demonstrates the bias and even hatred of the superior.
That the Jews were so identifiable through their self-segregation and idiosyncratic customs also greatly facilitated the concentration of fatal jealousy upon them.
I have no Jewish genes according to 23andMe.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5149a69bedd7419000012Ryan WenzelTue, 29 May 2012 14:25:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5149a69bedd7419000012
Antisemitism is a highly documented and studied phenomenon. Stop this lazy, sensationalist crowdsourcing and read a few history books.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51454ecad044f7d000008oquitiesTue, 29 May 2012 14:24:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51454ecad044f7d000008
judaism requires that to be jewish, you must be born of a jewish woman. this keeps the jewish bloodline separate from others and simultaneously punishes males who marry outside the faith (by denying their children jewish lineage). inherent in this practice is a presumed supremacist philosophy, along with some xenophobic prejudice. this also perpetuates jews doing business with jews, and other exclusionary practices which may cause gentile resentment - especially since it comes from a jewish population that seemingly decries all other forms of separatism, reflecting hypocrisy on its part.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51432ecad04747f000006westerneduchineseTue, 29 May 2012 14:23:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51432ecad04747f000006
People don't really hate Jews more than any other group, just that they are EASIEST to target. They are the smallest kid in class, the one who gets bullied.
That's why they want their own country, because they are the smart, dorky kid in class that some people are jealous of. They are incapable of protecting themselves, the perennial scapegoat in western civilization.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5135d69bedddf1b000001PiattiTue, 29 May 2012 14:20:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5135d69bedddf1b000001
read the above written by
additionally to my comment read the above by :
-> Shlomo on May 29, 1:28 PM ..
and Engaged to a Jewish Woman on May 29, 1:48 PM
To lead people you must be concerned with the welfare of the people you lead..and identify yourself with them .. if you don't you engender hatred ..so to dominate intellectually in a free and open society without becoming part of that society ..what would you expect..
Respect for the stupid disorganized and ignorant masses which are non Jewish does not start with a huge wall ..http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51331ecad04657f000003Tim in TucsonTue, 29 May 2012 14:19:29 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51331ecad04657f000003
Henry, this is a really good topic to bring up!
I just read through all of the previous comments/ While many were very good and well written, I'm not sure any of them have actually pointed to one of the major roots of the problem.
Here's my theory: Anti-Semetism is still alive today because it is difficult to change habits. What I mean by this is that in many cultures, anti-Semitism has been strong for several centuries. Each generation in these cultures has passed on their cultural views and prejudices to the next generation. What ends up happening is that children who are raised in a society that discriminates against Jews will probably go through life as adults with the same views.
Even when societies begin to change or shed some of their historical prejudices, there will still be a residual amount left. And in any society, even a handful of disaffected individuals (disaffected for whatever reason) will sometimes take hold of their societie's prejudices and become extremists. Witness in Russia how disaffected youth take out their anger on any non-white foreigner. There are so many more examples!
Here's are a couple of my life experiences that may help shed a little light and help illustrate what I am trying to say:
I grew up in Eugene, Oregon, which is extremely Liberal. While there were so very few minorities in the community, Eugene as a community was very open to the idea of diversity. When I encountered people from other cultures or who were minorities, I was interested in discovering more about their cultures.
Then I moved to Alabama, and later to Georgia. Talk about a completely different culture! Living in the Deep South, I was astonished that blacks and whites would work together at the same job, but that the blacks and whites lived in separate areas, and basically didn't socialize with each other. A black and a white person might be friends on the job, but that's usually as far as it went. And the hatred of each other throughout daily life was incredible to me having come from Oregon.
Living in the Deep South, I came to the conclusion that the reason that whites hate blacks and blacks hate whites is because this has been going on for two or three centuries, and that the hatred is passed down from the parents to the children. I came to the conclusion that it will be very, very difficult to end the racism in the Deep South for many generations to come, unless something dramatic changes in their society.
Now I live in Tucson. While you can find whites who hate Hispanics, and a few Hispanics who hate whites, for the most part Tucson is an inter-racial (I hate using that term) and multicultural society. It is common to see mixed couples, which weren't common at all in the Deep South! Most of us here don't even think of our co-workers as either white or Hispanic or any other minority! There is a distinct Hispanic culture here, but everytime I go shopping in a Hispanic store, I'm welcomed!
In conclusion, it is my belief that anti-Semitism is the result of centuries of discrimination that has been passed down from generation to generation. What's the solution? My belief is that our schools need to teach acceptance of others who come from different backgrounds. You can actually witness how much less discrimination and hatred there is in certain cities or areas with different cultures that haven't really had a long history of prejudice. There is a good-size Jewish community here in Tucson, but I don't encounter much anti-Semitism at all!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5125cecad04df7600000eMSiqueiraTue, 29 May 2012 14:15:56 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5125cecad04df7600000e
Why Do Some People Hate (post IPO) Facebook?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5122b6bb3f7671f000008Daniel RubinTue, 29 May 2012 14:15:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5122b6bb3f7671f000008
Three quarters of the comments here are answering the question, "Why I Hate the Jews."http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc511c269beddba16000003TomTue, 29 May 2012 14:13:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc511c269beddba16000003
Jews have been a lightening rod for criticism and hatred since the time of Christ. Most of which has been out of their control, a few within.
Today, I feel as though individuals who hate Jews do so for the following reasons:
1) Israel - Israel has more UN violations than any other country. They refuse to acknowledge the degree of their nuclear capability; they refuse to acknowledge the 1967 lines drawn between Palestine and Israel; and on top of it all, the undying backing from our United States thru all of this (though Obama has taken the hardest stance on their settlement violations). We pay Israel $3B in aid every year - for what exactly I do not fully understand myself. But if we're to hate anything it should be Israel's track record, their poor decisions, their treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, etc. Not the people themselves. Your cat pees on the carpet, you don't hate the cat, you hate the cat's behavior.
2) Media Control - I truly think some people believe Jews control media. I've never heard a logical defense for how this would ever be possible. However, the prevalence of the Jewish culture, the Jewish condition, as played by Jewish characters does seem to be significantly disproportionate to the size and degree by which they are a member of our overall mixed culture. Ever notice that? They're one of the country's smallest minorities yet they play a main character in the overall story. Why is that? Could be that there is a much higher percentage of media and entertainment influencers who are of Jewish decent, which could influence the outcome of the entertainment we see.
There is evidence of the West's deliberate decision to not cover the complete story of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. No one does a better job shedding the much needed light on the realities of life in occupied Palestine than Anna Baltzer.
See the Newsweek cover as example: <a href="http://www.annainthemiddleeast.com/" target="_blank">http://www.annainthemiddleeast.com/</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5112c69bedd990f00000bblack swanTue, 29 May 2012 14:10:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5112c69bedd990f00000b
There are Jew-hating sites all over the net. There have been many posts on BI about the Rothschilds (aka Jews) controlling the world's economy. Jews make great boogeymen, as Orwell depicted in "1984":
"Emmanuel Goldstein is a character in George Orwell's classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is the number one enemy of the people according to Big Brother and the Party, who heads a mysterious and possibly fictitious anti-party organization called The Brotherhood. Despite being a key part of the story, he is only actually seen and heard on telescreen, and may in fact be nothing more than a useful propaganda fabrication of the Ministry of Truth."
Not all Jews are created equal. Ashkenazi mix Jews, who make up 80% of all Jews, supposedly have IQs that average 107 . Pure blooded Ashkenazi Jews test out in the 112-115 IQ range. While Mizrahi Jews (Arab Jews) test out in the 90-95 IQ range. It is the Ashkenazi that so many people love to hate. Before the Ashkenazi came to the Middle East, the Mizrahi Jews and most of their Arab neighbors got along. Just as an aside, Jordanians and Iraqis are Semites. Most Jews are Semites. Iranians are descendents of Aryan tribes, and Saudi Arabians are true Arabs.
Ashkenazi Jews have been mass murdered in, and exiled from, countries all around the world for the last 2,000 years. Possibly because of this, they meet Darwin's "survival of the adaptable" definition of a successful "species". However, other than in Israel, the exponentially growing numbers of their exogamous marriages will result in bringing an end to Ashkenazim throughout the rest of the world.
Ii is no surprise that when a small ethnic minority of people own such a disproportionate share of the wealth, many people find it easy to dislike them. Many non-Jews find it easier to hate Blankfein, Shwartzman, Madoff and Bernanke, than they do Dimon, Buffett, Corzine and Geithner. Hopefully, if there is a Hell, it is nondenominational.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5108fecad040f7b000001Dean WormerTue, 29 May 2012 14:08:15 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5108fecad040f7b000001
People hate religions of all kinds. People hate races of all kinds. Jews are the only group that combine both a race of people and a religion. This brings focus to two kinds of hatred in one group of people.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51070eab8eac06e00001arobertso2020Tue, 29 May 2012 14:07:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc51070eab8eac06e00001a
ignorance and jealousy.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50ffd69beddb314000001jenna orkinTue, 29 May 2012 14:05:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50ffd69beddb314000001
People hate Jews bcs it's easy. In many parts of the world, it's in the air, taken for granted, a tradition. Who has the strength of will, the independence required to buck tradition, especially in a place where that amounts to risking ostracism?
For any curious soul who asks him/herself the question you're now asking, there abound websites to provide the sort of answers that delight the hearts of anti-Semites but make a logician's hair stand on end. These websites exist to affirm prejudice and fuel hatred in order to distract the masses from true criminality.
To whit: The Jews run everything. They're the rich masters of the universe who steal to amass their fortunes. You know: the Rockefellers and all those other guys. (Yes, the reasoning goes like that: If they're rich, they're Jewish. QED.)
Not only are all rich people Jewish, but also, all Jewish people are rich or at least, in whatever business they're in only for the money and are perfectly happy to cheat for it.
2. There's a conflation of all Jews with the ultra-Orthodox who are wreaking havoc in the Middle East.
3. The further you get from people who actually know and work with Jews, the more simplistic the views become, like that old poster of a New Yorker's view of the world which is detailed up to New Jersey but rapidly becomes desert after that.
There's plenty of legitimate bad press about Jews. The point is that prejudice magnifies that and brushes aside analogous scandals in other populations.
Jenna Orkin
author, The Moron's Guide to Global Collapsehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50ee4ecad04b574000002LiriTue, 29 May 2012 14:01:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50ee4ecad04b574000002
Indeed dear Natalie is jewish and was born in Israel, amazing actress!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50e8decad04bb74000008InvestorTue, 29 May 2012 13:59:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50e8decad04bb74000008
Because it's easier to blame someone else for your failures in life than to own up to your own shortcomings and simply admit that you failed through no reason other than your own lack of ability which is very difficult for most to ever admit. It's far easier to fail because XXXX cheated/lied/fixed the game/etc than to fail because you simply aren't that smart/talented/etc.
Hating the Jews because they control XXX (world banking cartel, New World Order government, take your pick, there are a million of them) allows people to blame others for their own shortcomings.
The Jewish faith is a convenient scapegoat because they were the bankers in the middle ages and as such generated wealth. Wealth breeds contempt. Today, Jews generaly assist each other in their business and personal lives. Those not receiving this assistance immediately assume it's a conspiracy of some sort designed to keep them from ever succeeding in life.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50e056bb3f7181d000001LiriTue, 29 May 2012 13:57:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50e056bb3f7181d000001
Very well put!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50d9fecad047c72000006DustinTue, 29 May 2012 13:55:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50d9fecad047c72000006
I think once you get beyond the whole legacy of ethnic hatred that is cultural you run into stereotypes, which unfortunately often have a lot of truth to them or they wouldn't be stereotypes in the first place. So, someone who doesn't have a clearly defined hatred of some sub-group sees a stereotype play out in real life, and it is becomes easy to make the jump that all the other negative nonsense people say about a given sub-group is true.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50d65eab8ea9a6e000009Andrew HallTue, 29 May 2012 13:54:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50d65eab8ea9a6e000009
But Jacob, it does not predate Khazarianism, Bolshevism, and some of Zionism's other precursors.
Zionism as we know it was in its infancy when the Bolsheviks took over Russia; it didn't stop many Jewish Bolsheviks from killing and lying and stealing in a mad quest for power there. The Jewish branch of my own family LEFT Russia early last century to avoid having to either 1) become Jewish Bolsheviks and do a lot of lousy things to other people in the name of not being targeted by the powers that be, or 2) get caught up in the backlash against the Jewish Bolsheviks who were taking Christians and forcing them to renounce Christ at bayonet-point or they'd stab their babies to prevent the spread of Christianity.
These things happened. A lot of Jews don't want to talk about them; I will be talking about them. My argument stands. You may feel free to replace Zionism with any of the numerous corrupt branches of Jewish thought that have existed over the years, if you like - UP TO and INCLUDING the Pharisees, who also broke Moses' law and yet called themselves Jews.
The problem as I see it is that when people do lousy things in God's name, it inspires a backlash, and then EVERYONE in that religious group is blamed because the things done are so lousy and the anger so intense. And hatred involving religion or God in any way is more likely to persist THROUGH THE AGES than any other kind; ask the Christian families persecuted in Russia by the Bolsheviks, once upon a time, how they still feel about Jews. I don't condone it, but if someone had taken my ancestors and killed a child of theirs at bayonet-point - I might feel differently, or be unable to control my anger as well. I try to understand, not just to rail against anti-Semites because they hate me. I'd rather understand why and where they came from. People are people, in the end.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50ce76bb3f7c916000025RoryBellowsTue, 29 May 2012 13:52:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50ce76bb3f7c916000025
It's not courageous. It's idiotic. Asking the question has the opposite effect of it's intention. It guarantees more heat than light. Just look at the top comments. They all seem perfectly reasonable until you realize what effect they have on you. They give the reader the sense that maybe there is something to the hatred. Oh I don't know, maybe it has something to do with Jews being "separate" from society. Maybe it has something to do with Israel. Who knows? Reasonable minds can disagree!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50ce5eab8ea9a6e000005JamesTue, 29 May 2012 13:52:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50ce5eab8ea9a6e000005
How did this become a question of Zionism??? Anyone who knows anything about Jewish History knows that hatred of Jews occurred well before the first world Zionist congress in the 1890's. The conflation of these two issues just goes to show you how certain people want to bring up radical conspiracy theories about Zionism and Jew control of everything (banking, govt etc.)
As an orthodox Jew (with many tens of relatives killed in the Holocaust) I think i have a fair amount of background into this issue and the amount of ignorance being portrayed on this message board is horrifying. The Jews haven't been hated for centuries, it's a Millennial problem. Persians, Romans, Christians, Muslims etc. have all used at one time or another the Jewish community as their whipping boys for one reason or another. Institutionalized hatred and violence against the Jewish community as recent as the 19th/20th century wasn't limited to Nazi Germany. State sponsored violence occurred with regularity in Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe. Again - this had nothing to do with Zionism.
Every culture needs a scapegoat. For much of the world it has been the Jews. I'm no expert on other cultures, but i have a strong feeling that in Africa (Rwanda comes to mind) there were/are certain communities that have been institutionally used as scapegoats.
For Christians (Christ Killer) Jews have made a pretty easy one for centuries. These types of ingrained institutional scapegoating take an ignorant population by storm and these tall tales are passed down from generation to generation. Misinformation can take a long time to stamp out. The Jewish people will be hated for many years to come because of things that French/British/German/Russian etc. preists told their flock centuries ago. Not much i can go about trying to change there so the best thing to do is ignore it. (Good example is going with a Jewish tour group to Auschwitz - the site of millions of killings during the Holocaust and hearing some good Polish folk yelling curses and epithets at the descendants of people who were killed there - but good to know that people still think that this is an issue that Zionism created/fostered. One word for those people PATHETIC)http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50ca9ecad046070000008JDBTue, 29 May 2012 13:51:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50ca9ecad046070000008
God. The Bible. The Plan for Salvation and Defeat of Satan. The nation of Israel is instrumental in this and God still has plans for them (see: The Book of Daniel, The Book of Revelation). If Satan can destroy the Jews, he thinks he'll win. That's the only reason that since the inception of the nation of Israel they've continually be hounded by the nations around them. These days we make excuses about the Palestinians or a superiority complex or religious bigotry, but that doesn't explain 3,000 years of hatred, unless you look to another source other than mere human history.
The answer is the war between Heaven and Hell; Israel is in the middle. That's your answer.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50c4569beddc40a000005LiriTue, 29 May 2012 13:49:57 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50c4569beddc40a000005
Couldnt agree more, its time religion stop being the cause for wars and start bringing all of us togetherhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50c2deab8ea1c6c000006PiattiTue, 29 May 2012 13:49:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50c2deab8ea1c6c000006
a couple things
annoying highly vocal superiority complex with an inability to accept criticism easily (thin skin) combined with being superior at many things that require diligence hard work and social support (usually derived from within their own group which makes others feel they are insular and plotting) so in a place like the US..alot of freedom and opportunity (1960 till now) they have been able to dominate and have an out sized affect on much of the social debates..WITHOUT much self awareness sensitivity or understanding or respect for the feeling of others that they dominate intellectually .. which then pushes the larger group to silently hate or worse turn towards physical violence..
just a thoughthttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50c03eab8ead86b00000bEngaged to a Jewish WomanTue, 29 May 2012 13:48:51 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50c03eab8ead86b00000b
Well, I'll take a shot from personal experience which echo's a lot of what has already been said. I was previously engaged to a Jewish woman who I adored for a few years, and for the same reasons below it didn't work out, and left me with a very bad taste in my mouth regarding Jews, and Judaism. I don't hate Jews, not even close. But I can now understand the anxiety some might have against them. Here were my 2 Anxiety points:
1) RELIGION - I'm a Christian, and so is much of North America (South America as well) and therefore believe in Jesus etc. This was a major issue, as it would be with most Christians. The Jewish religion is also largely based on Tradition, Jewish tradition, rather than what I would consider "historical evidence". Throwing salt over your left should, pebbles on gravestones, salt lick on the door steep, etc. etc. What I thought were 'cute' traditions over time became a obsessive dogmatic approach to these traditions (Yes, even effecting day-to-day life). Tradition seemed to even play a larger role in her (and her family and friends) lives, then the basic belief of "God". This was very hard to accept and understand.
2) Jewish Society - As time went on with my Fiance, she became more "orthodox" and became more involved in the Jewish community. As this happened, I became more and more of an outcast. It really became an attitude of "Jewish vs. the rest of the world" mentality, and if you're not Jewish you're sub standard. You're not the chosen race, therefore you're not a part of the "inner circle" as I called it then. After being called a "goy" hundreds of times by her family and friends (and no, this wasn't the nice "Nation" they were referring to) I realized quickly that this group of people (her family and friends) were actually racist against anyone other than Jews.
IMHO. I really don't know anyone personally who is racist against Jews. But I know many Jews that are racist against anyone not Jewish. - Again, this is just my own personal experience.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50bf569bedda805000007DarrellBrogdonTue, 29 May 2012 13:48:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50bf569bedda805000007
The answer to this exact same question I received once from a Jewish friend was because in the days when the Christian church didn't allow banking or money lending the Jews were the only ones people could go to and borrow money. And much like todays hatred of the banking industry (that hatred at least is not necessarily unfounded) the borrowers grew to hate the lender.
I don't think that's necessarily THE reason but it does seem at least to be a plausible one.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50bb0ecad041a6e000007Andrew HallTue, 29 May 2012 13:47:28 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50bb0ecad041a6e000007
If you want anti-Christianism further discussed - and I will never deny it is out there, and growing, in the modern world - you also need to discuss the attitudes that are producing a backlash against it.
I quite agree that Christians are persecuted in the modern world; but it is happening in my opinion for the same reason as Jews are persecuted - there are a small subset of very powerful and influential "Christians" in power in certain circles right now who are not adhering to their own rhetoric, are breaking Moses' Commandments against killing, lying, and stealing, and are treating others abominably. Most Christians are beautiful wonderful people and indeed some of the most principled and compassionate people I know are Christian. But the Crusaders were also nominally "Christian", despite killing and lying in God's name - the modern-day Crusaders running much of the Defense Department are also nominally "Christian" (and many are indeed Christian Zionist), and yet they have stolen a great deal of money from the American people using lies to start these wars to go killing with.
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-rodda/top-ten-ways-to-convince_b_291308.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-rodda/top-ten-ways-to-convince_b_291308.html</a>
Again, it's an example of the group being blamed for the actions of a powerful minority of hypocrites.
The essential problem, I think, is that power corrupts. I'm sure most of the Zionists and Crusaders and jihadists out there think they are lovely Jews or Christians or Muslims; but they don't follow their own rules - and there is nothing like power, money, and immunity from prosecution to make one think one is above the laws of man and God.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50b406bb3f7d714000005FBRULES1979Tue, 29 May 2012 13:45:36 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50b406bb3f7d714000005
"The Zionists are TERRIBLE. They murder and cheat and kill and steal"
way to push your own agenda, moron.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50b146bb3f7791400000bYou must be new here!Tue, 29 May 2012 13:44:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50b146bb3f7791400000b
You must not read many of the comments to the articles over the past year or so. This article written by Henry won't attract any more neo-nazis and cyberKlan members than already have visited and posted comments on so many other stories!
In other words, you don't know what's going on.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50aefecad04d66e000003LiriTue, 29 May 2012 13:44:15 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50aefecad04d66e000003
True, jews always found themselves a minority after they were exiled from ancient israel kingdom. In addition, the jewish religion which kept them seperated from local culturs in food, looks, belive etc made them and kept them different , and as we all know, many times ignorant people like to hate what they cant understand...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50a6869bedd2d0300000aCaptain StealthTue, 29 May 2012 13:42:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50a6869bedd2d0300000a
Some pretty good responses here already so I'll try not to repeat what's already been said.
I think that certain features of the Jewish religion have conspired to make Judaism a minority faith throughout history: it passes through the maternal line while, in most traditional societies, it is the paternal faith that determines how the family is raised; conversion is difficult and not really encouraged, no tradition of proselytizing, etc.
It's fairly well known that ethnic/religious groups are usually persecuted wherever they are in the minority and Jews have been a minority in every country they are found in for millennia. Even in Israel, being surrounded by militant Muslim states has effectively made them a minority in this land too.
Couple this with the fact Jews seem to be unusually successful in business it's common enough that people will start to resent that success and start attributing it to negative stereotypes like underhandedness, crookedness, etc.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc509f4eab8ea796100000cDanielSteevesTue, 29 May 2012 13:40:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc509f4eab8ea796100000c
What kind of a vile headline is this? Unacceptable mongering.
consider me unsubscribed to BI; unfollowed, etchttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc509edeab8ea4766000008JacobTue, 29 May 2012 13:39:57 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc509edeab8ea4766000008
Andrew, the problem with your thesis is that anti-Semitism predates Zionism. In fact, Zionism was a product of Jew hatred; it was suppose to be the solution to the ages old problem.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc509e069beddda02000008Neo AnunnakiTue, 29 May 2012 13:39:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc509e069beddda02000008
People dislike Jews because they are the chosen ones. Let me explain:
As Ancient Astronaut Theory states that extraterrestrials with superior knowledge of science and engineering landed on Earth thousands of years ago, sharing their expertise with early civilizations and forever changing the course of human history.
Various ancient religious texts in which humans witness and interact with gods or other heavenly beings who descend from the sky—sometimes in vehicles resembling spaceships—and possess spectacular powers. The second is physical specimens such as artwork depicting alien-like figures and ancient architectural marvels like Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt.
In the bible it describes God giving them this machine that worked for 6 days, then on the 7th they had to disasemble it and clean it, hence the sabbath.
It apparently created a green algae like substance that fed the Jews during their trek through the desert.
There are also accounts of the manna machine being transported and if people came close to it or touched it they became ill.
The suggestion there is it was radioactive as the most likely energy source for the machine would have been nuclear energy.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc509bdecad041b6c000003AnnaTarkovTue, 29 May 2012 13:39:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc509bdecad041b6c000003
I think it's very sad if you call yourself a Jew and purport to not know why anti-Semitism exists. It's like being black and being confused as to why there are people who have racist beliefs about African-Americans. Do you see the problem?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5099f6bb3f73c10000010LiriTue, 29 May 2012 13:38:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5099f6bb3f73c10000010
Great answer! And i guess close to the truth as much as possible :)http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50999eab8ea8f66000003Anupam AcharyaTue, 29 May 2012 13:38:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50999eab8ea8f66000003
Identifying people with a certain religion and then making judgement based on some common trait has been a part of human psychology from ages and this kind of mentality has been evidently displayed again and again in various forms. Also I believe that the way you have put this question is itself wrong and it defeats the purpose of even asking it in front of everyone but anyways people had and will always be posing these kind of things wherever they want to. The right question should be as now being so technically advanced that we are in the age to develop anything remotely possible with technology... are we still in the stone age regarding the intellectual judgement we have about the society and people around us. The right question should that Why even after gaining so much we are still at a loss because we identify people not as human beings all of which has common origination but as some religious minority or majority creating egoistic attitudes which fail to live up to their purpose of the meaning of life as a whole.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50965ecad04216c000001Wrong!Tue, 29 May 2012 13:37:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50965ecad04216c000001
I personally HATE the Tea Party, and am working on a campaign to defeat one of their candidates. That being said, I don't recall any anti-Jewish comments from the Tea Party. I do recall many anti-black comments, however. But that's another story...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50962eab8ea1369000001StusTue, 29 May 2012 13:37:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50962eab8ea1369000001
Why do you think it is surprising to see chinese workers in chinatown? Isn't that the case for non-jewish firms? I'm not american, so I really don't know. It just sounded funny that you would point out how there are so many asian workers in chinatown.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5094c6bb3f77412000001Evan LeeTue, 29 May 2012 13:37:16 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5094c6bb3f77412000001
What a ridiculous premise for a blog post. Seriously, you're going to crowd source the question of why "some people" are anti-Semitic? I'm sure that'll yield some globe-shifting results. Alert the Nobel committee.
Blodget, I have some suggestions for future posts. Feel free to use these, if you're still employed:
-Why does my head hurt when I eat ice cream too fast?
-Why do some people talk in funny talk that doesn't sound anything like English?
-Why can't we all just get along?
-Why are muffins so damn big?
-How come I got sick when I ate cat food, but the cat NEVER gets sick?
-Why are people mean to me sometimes?
-How the hell did I get this job?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc508ad69bedd7c7f000006AmericanTue, 29 May 2012 13:34:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc508ad69bedd7c7f000006
99.99% of the voting American public could not tell you what AIPAC stands for.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5088969bedd120300003dAndrew HallTue, 29 May 2012 13:34:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5088969bedd120300003d
I am a quarter Ashkenaz Jewish by ancestry, and I am fully glad that Mr. Blodget has the courage to have this debate. Please stop being afraid of the discussion.
The fear and hate that a lot of modern Jews have over even HAVING this debate, in my opinion, actually increases anti-Semitism by then encouraging a lot of non-Jews to believe that Jews stifle and censor any discussion on the subject - which is, of course, not true, but there is definitely a subset of modern Jewry in my experience that is still so afraid of the Holocaust that it DOES want to censor any debate on the subject.
I have news for everyone - they are going to be angry anyway. We need to have these talks; fear of discussing a subject increases the fear and power of the subject.
Would you like to know where discussions about anti-Semitism WERE censored and removed as "offensive" to the powers that be? Nazi Germany - so please think about that before you ask for more censorship.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5072569bedd6b7f000004ShlomoTue, 29 May 2012 13:28:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5072569bedd6b7f000004
I am a Jew and people do hate us. There is no doubt about it. My granddaughter is in her 2nd year at Yale and you would not believe how she is treated at residence.
Here are my reasons for the hate towards us.
1. Jealousy. We represent less than 2% of the population and yet we rule the US in every major area. Consider entertainment, finance, science, economics, law, politics. We are more intelligent. We work harder. We are a moral people. We are a religious people. And, people just cannot stand that. They never could. 33% of nobel prize winners are Jews, worldwide. That does not shock the world? Yes it does and people are jealous. Moving on.
2. Our religion. That has been a sore point before Jesus and it has been even worse since. Not all of us are Orthodox but we do not believe in fairy tales. We no longer hold back like we used to in the Middle Ages. Most recently one of our ultra-Orthodox Rabbi's called all the people some choice names. In other words, we have just as much respect for you as you do for us. Sorry but that is the reality. We do not want people converted. If they wish, that is fine but we really don't want them.
3. AIPAC- I might as well say it because I heard it often enough. Read the best book on the subject: Israel Lobby. Our Congress is beholden to them and as is our Senate. People see that their representatives seem to be listening more to a foreign country (Israel) than to their own people. So, instead of looking to their Congress and changing things, they misplace their hatred and guess who they take it out on? Yes, us. It is beyond most of us to understand how AIPAC can pass the type of legislation they are able to.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc506ce6bb3f7450e000006Andrew HallTue, 29 May 2012 13:26:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc506ce6bb3f7450e000006
"Is this what Jews look like? Movie stars..."
Actually, Natalie Portman is probably a better representation of a modern powerful and influential Jew than any picture of a Hasid or Haredi could ever be. Not just movie stars, but most movie executives and producers as well. Hollywood is INTENSELY Jewish, and there is no point denying it.
I rather enjoyed the piece by Joel Klein in the L.A. Times basically in which he basically said - yes, I am Jewish, yes, I believe Jews run Hollywood, and not only that, Jews should be proud of it.
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-stein19-2008dec19,0,4676183.column" target="_blank">http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-stein19-2008dec19,0,4676183.column</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc506c9ecad04cd67000006Dave MacTue, 29 May 2012 13:26:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc506c9ecad04cd67000006
The Jews consider themselves to be "God's Chosen People" and look down on others, so of course they are hated for that.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc506a969bedd787a00000aHeTue, 29 May 2012 13:26:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc506a969bedd787a00000a
I'm no expert on the subject of anti Semitism, but i recently saw a documentary on the subject which i found rather enlightening, its called "Constantine's sword". Its about anti Semitism made by a former Catholic priest. For those interested on the subject, i recommend watching the documentary (among other references) and draw your own conclusion.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5069d69bedd3078000008RoryBellowsTue, 29 May 2012 13:25:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5069d69bedd3078000008
I was trying to find something supported by facts in your comment. You did get Henry's name correct. Congrats.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5064769bedd6b7a00000eJeff ReddingTue, 29 May 2012 13:24:23 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5064769bedd6b7a00000e
Hi Henry,
Love this site! And I second Andrew, most of the modern hate (and a source of growing hate going forward) will indeed revolve around the Israel and how it conducts itself vis-a-vis international law and standards.
The problem is that the response of Zionists is not to begin to adhere to international standards of law and justice, rather to conflate anti-zionism with anti-semitism. This has worked wonders as a strategy to suppress dissenting voices.
This strategy is slowly going to falter once americans see how Israel is in fact not a "democracy" but a religious society offering its citizens (both occupied and non) little in the way of self-determination and civil rights.
This bizarre guilt trip of Americans and other nations that had nothing to do with the holocaust should eventually fade. We didn't commit the murders, nor were our citizens the victims... let's teach it, not subsidize an entire Holocaust Industry (i.e. the holocaust museum).http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5061569bedd1478000006RoryBellowsTue, 29 May 2012 13:23:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5061569bedd1478000006
I was trying to find something supported by facts in your comment. You did get Henry's name correct. Congrats.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc505d16bb3f7270e000004obie wanTue, 29 May 2012 13:22:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc505d16bb3f7270e000004
yes there is such thing as hate of jews. and the reasons are quite simple: ignorance, xenophobia and jealousy. when some people who don't know any better don't do well they have to blame it on somebody and it has to be somebody different, preferably a minority. jews are a perfect target. and of course they don't know this minority well so they immediately suspect all kinds of things about them. similar behaviors can be observed among children in classrooms, teenagers against gays etc etc.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc505ca69beddc37c000008Andrew HallTue, 29 May 2012 13:22:18 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc505ca69beddc37c000008
And how is it that you know?
It's not that you hit a nerve; it's that the Rothschilds have been involved in a great deal of intrigue over the years. I might believe it that they're on the outs with some of the powers that be at present, but I also believe the rumors that Lord Evelyn was heavily involved in the Bush-era decisions to go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan - and those decisions produced a GREAT deal of anti-Semitism in the modern world, I promise.
I am not trying to fight with you, I simply disagree with your analysis.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc505a8ecad048665000006Derka DerkaTue, 29 May 2012 13:21:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc505a8ecad048665000006
Kill all disbelievers! C'mon, grow some skin. It's good that he had the courage to create this. Bring it right out and talk about it. I too would like to read peoples opinions on this topic. Judging based on the hit counts, it's fascinating to a lot of people.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5057f69beddc97c000001Evan From TorontoTue, 29 May 2012 13:21:03 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5057f69beddc97c000001
I'll be nice here and only say that over 1 million people died in Auschwitz alone.
"Franciszek Piper, director of the historical committee of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, said yesterday that, according to recent research, at least 1.3 million people were deported to the camp, of whom about 223,000 survived.
The 1.1 million victims included 960,000 Jews, between 70,000 and 75,000 Poles, nearly all of the 23,000 Gypsies sent to the camp and 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war."http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5057beab8ea5a56000009Andrew AckermanTue, 29 May 2012 13:20:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5057beab8ea5a56000009
One of mankind's evolutionary advantages was cooperation but the flip side of this is that we quickly learned to distinguish between in-group (who we could trust) and out-group (who we could not trust). Any difference can set off this in vs. out decision but very visible differences like race were most likely to do so.
So the really interesting question IMHO is not why some people hate Jews, but rather why recently many people (e.g., evangelicals in US) have *stopped* hating Jews?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50576eab8ea975e000002Fred IVTue, 29 May 2012 13:20:54 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50576eab8ea975e000002
I'm Jewish, and it's not offensive to me. I've been wondering the same. Especially glad that you try to police the horrifically rabid comments on the site - I stopped coming back for a long time because it made me sick to my stomach.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50540ecad049265000003Ice_BergTue, 29 May 2012 13:20:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50540ecad049265000003
You are asking why the Titanic hates all "bergs" ?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc504e5ecad045a5f000012BillTue, 29 May 2012 13:18:29 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc504e5ecad045a5f000012
I don't really know the answer but here are what I think are the two main reasons:
1. Judaism tends to be a minority religion wherever it goes and also encourages/requires devotion to traditional Jewish customs and culture. Any time there is a minority group that does not want to assimilate itself into the broader culture, the minority group tends to face bias.
2. Judaism explicitly teaches that the Jewish people are God's chosen people. The religion basically teaches its followers that God has chosen them above everyone else, so in a way they are better than everyone else. Unlike most other major religions, this is primarily based on ethnicity rather than conversion to the religion. This is sure to give some followers of the religion a feeling of superiority that obviously would rub others the wrong way. Even if it didn't, it would rub non-Jews the wrong way.
Combine #1 and #2 together, and you have a recipe for a lot of people not liking Jews. That's my best guess, anyway.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc504dceab8ea625e000001EconomistTue, 29 May 2012 13:18:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc504dceab8ea625e000001
1: They have remained extremely tribal
2: They are extremely successful
3: They've been doing 1 & 2 for a very long time in almost every city on Earth.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc504d0ecad04395f000009Beltway GregTue, 29 May 2012 13:18:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc504d0ecad04395f000009
Hit a nerve didi I? The Rothschilds run what they run, nothing more, nothing less. Recently Nat Rothschild lost a libel suit against the Daily Mail and was removed as a director of a mining company Bumi. So much for global domination. They started life/history with the surname Bauer and adopted Rothschild after a red shield that was affixed to their door in the German ghetto. Famously, they are mythologized as having been short stocks after Waterloo but that's one of the biggest lies about them of all. The family was long gold and almost were wiped from the financial earth after a quick end to the war. They bought gold in the belief it would be needed to pay the troops.
The Rothschilds have no sway with political parties in America. Trust me, I know.
I'd love to work for them.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc504aa69bedd937500000cBlodgets_ConscienceTue, 29 May 2012 13:17:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc504aa69bedd937500000c
Why do people hate SAI?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc504a66bb3f76c05000007AmericanTue, 29 May 2012 13:17:26 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc504a66bb3f76c05000007
I don't hate Jews although I am frustrated with American Jews voting for Democrats 80%+ every election. At some point they're going to realize that the biggest threat to Jewish Traditions is radical government enforced secularization.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc504756bb3f7c409000001BeanieTue, 29 May 2012 13:16:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc504756bb3f7c409000001
Chief you make me wonder if you are a Jew? or a Jew hater?
Can't be anything elsehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50453ecad046165000001RogerTue, 29 May 2012 13:16:03 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50453ecad046165000001
It is an oft overlooked fact that nearly 70% of worldwide religious hatred and persecution is directed at those of the Christian faith. Perhaps it would be a fair question to ask then as to why only hatred aimed at those of Jewish religion is highlighted. Just a thought.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5042e6bb3f73305000010Fred IVTue, 29 May 2012 13:15:26 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5042e6bb3f73305000010
When Jews held themselves separate and religious, others though banning religion altogether would finally gain the Jews' acceptance. People didn't like Marx much, either.
There are Jews on both sides of the aisles, politically. Left-leaning wackos in Occupy movement love to blame "Jewish Bankers" for their troubles; Right-leaning wackos blame "Jewish Democrats" for theirs.
Jews have been kicked out of pretty much every country throughout history; their money and lands stolen, and debts "forgiven" and confiscated by the powers that were.
Jews were ordered into ghettos, and then victimized for being "separate"; they were banned from certain trades and professions, so became successful in others. Pogroms were commonplace in europe and the middle east.
Jews "Run": Hollywood, Media, Banks, Politics, Chess, Math, Science, Tech, blah blah blah... The fact that many Jews push themselves to success makes some people angry.
Today, we see how people can vilify Israel, even in the face of the ridiculously obvious villain. No other country abhors unnecessary civilian casualties like Israel. No other country is ready to prosecute it's own soldiers for crimes like Israel. No other country is surrounded by hundreds of millions of enemies who have vowed her destruction. No other country faces faces an enemy who fights in the shelter of their own children. No other country has the actual technical power and might to annihilate her enemies once and for all, yet refrains, to avoid killing the innocent.
Should Israel some day be destroyed, or become another "Islamic State" people will continue to hate Jews. They will find reasons.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5036cecad04fb5c00000fEconomistTue, 29 May 2012 13:12:12 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5036cecad04fb5c00000f
It's pretty simple.
1: They are in almost every country.
2: They stick together in a tribal manner.
3: They are extremely successful.
4: They've been doing this for a very long time.
I imagine if you combine those elements for any other group you'd see similar hatred raise up over time.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5035aecad04ef5c000023NotSocialistTue, 29 May 2012 13:11:54 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5035aecad04ef5c000023
This question discriminates none jews. Some people don't like them, but that's another story.
There are many valid reasons why people do not like them, Zionism is one of them. In case you Henry want the answer to the question read their books and you'll find out what they think about you.
Btw, "them", "their" is a very broad term here.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5034a69beddbb75000005David FTue, 29 May 2012 13:11:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5034a69beddbb75000005
I think these days anti-semitism persists in the West because the idea of the Jews as conspirators is "close at hand" - it's just been around for so long that it becomes intellectually easy to turn to them when someone wants a scapegoat for something. I'd venture that it's the same reason why there's a relatively few number of groups that are bandied about in conspiracy theory circles - the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, etc. - it's a kind of mental inertia. The whole point of a conspiracy theory is to provide a fundamentally very simple explanation for a wide range of problems, so it would make sense that the main actors in these theories would also be chosen for simplicity's sake.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5034769bedd2978000002Paul STue, 29 May 2012 13:11:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5034769bedd2978000002
I could give you a long speculative answer covering minorities, cultural differences, the blame game, Jesus and banking - but I won't. Instead I'll just make one point.
I'm not sure that this is understood in America, but the biggest reason in the world right now for hating Jews is simply the actions of Israel. Israel has got away with a lot (largely due to American support) and this has caused anger and hatred, and not only among muslims.
Although these aren't valid reasons for hating Jews, sadly there are some pretty good reasons for being angry with Israel. It's ironic that the powerful Jewish vote/lobby in the US, by their seemingly blind support for Israel, has actually created more widespread hatred of Jews. (BTW I'm not saying the Palestinians are blameless)http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5030decad04105d000007OWS hates jewsTue, 29 May 2012 13:10:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5030decad04105d000007
Why do people hate jews? Good and fair question.
Has anybody asked the much celebrated OWS crowd with all their anti-jewish, anti-zionist messages?
The media loves OWS but they don't like showing those signs and billboards trying to link rich, zionist jews with evil corporations. The media doesn't like to air those OWS with mega-phones yelling at greedy jews for ruining the world.
I dare you type "OWS hates jews" into youtube and see how many examples are given.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50306ecad04375f00000aPhantomriderTue, 29 May 2012 13:10:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50306ecad04375f00000a
Jews have been hated for centuries. First, because they set themselves above all other humans as being God's chosen people.
Second, because God allegedly promised the patriarch Abraham a land, the Promised Land, they went on to occupy land already occupied by others. This type of activity has spawned wars of reprisal from the very beginning of man's existence.
Third, those of us who do not believe in a hierarchical God and Heaven do not believe in either of two religions founded on a real estate dispute between the occupiers and the usurpers.
Fourth Jews defend to the last shekel their property rights and then express righteous indignation when others do the same. Fifth any discussion of anything critical, the word critical is not meant maliciously in this context, is immediately labeled anti Semitic. Problems in the US which are purely domestic if they come against Jewish interest do not get solved and fester.
Fifth, while it is monstrous that six million Jews were executed in concentration camps, no word is spoken of the 12 -20 million Russians killed by the Nazis, of which people of Jewish origin probably comprised a significant number. If a people can not show mercy to others suffering the same fate as themselves, they have no right to expect mercy from others.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc502f46bb3f7d00200000cDMZTue, 29 May 2012 13:10:12 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc502f46bb3f7d00200000c
it's a religious, cultural, economic, societal and educational thing
religious (being branded as christ killer played a big role)
cultural (different language & traits)
economic (many are successful, thnx to emphasis on learning and historical roles into which they were initially forced)
societal (always a very small minority wherever they live/have lived; minorities are easy prey for those seeking someone to blame; envy from others re their success)
educational (tend to excel as do most who come from backgrounds where reading & studying are critical to their religions- Muslims, Hindus, Chinese thnx to Confucius)http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc502db69bedd5c73000002dennis mooneyTue, 29 May 2012 13:09:47 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc502db69bedd5c73000002
Its a curious question and one to invoke passionate discussion. On both sides. The antisemetics need to enlighten us with rational argument. I am not a Jew and frankly find myself on both sides of the argument from time to time. Never hating but often asking myself why certain things happen that often involve Jewish people. Already someone is saying I'm anti-Semitic just to have those kinds of thoughts. But I have them often about other races and ethnicities. Its human nature. Hell I have them often about Catholics and I am one.
How far does "hatred" of Jews go back? BTW its your word, hatred, not mine. I'd lean towards distrust before using hatred.
Does it go back before the Egyptians enslaved the Jews? And did they enslave them for their religion or for their proximity? If it were't Jews living north of them might they have enslaved someone else? History of full of one nation enslaving another, did they hate that other nation or was it just convenient cheap labor? Surely they felt the other to be inferior but that does not mean they hated them, they had no respect for them thats certain.
Even among the Jews were there not sects that hated each other? Mistrusted each other? Showed a lack of respect for each other?
Fast forward to Medieval Europe when King Edward I expelled Jews from Britain because they were money lenders extracting onerous interest payments and the King was in a war and needed their money and property. If it were Danes or Vikings that were the money lenders he would have taken their possessions too I suspect.
Jews have been singled out throughout the centuries for how they dressed (not unlike Muslims in Europe today) or how they cut their hair, or didn't. Its not a fair comparison but teenagers who didn't cut their hair in the 60's were mocked and "hated" in a way, Poor example I know but it shows that people single out those that are different.
Some of the best comedians are Jewish and we love them. Some of the richest men in the word are Jewish but we dont love them as much do we? Why? I dont know. We love rich comedians (Jerry Seinfeld) but we dont really love funny bankers (I can't name one). So it is the human nature of jealousy. Maybe thats as close as I've gotten to an explanation.
A comment I'll make is focus. Jews have maintained focus on their trials and hardships. The Old Testament that Gentiles read give us exposure to these times. Written by Jews but studied my Gentiles and taken as the foundation of our religious beliefs we are exposed at an early age to the hardships of one particular people- the Jews. In school we didn't hear so much about the Irish and their centuries of hardship at the hands of a neighbor. That "hatred" was in part religiously based. But if we had exposure to the Irish hardships it was in history class not catechism class. Our religious teachers were far more passionate than our history teachers and so we absorbed the stories differently.
I chose to mention the Irish but you could substitute that with Africans, lower Indian castes or Romani people termed Gypsies.The latter were part of Hitler's focus but are often overlooked.
Which brings us to the modern day Jewish homeland. Israel.
There are many people, myself included, who wonder why people calling themselves Palestinian can't have their own homeland adjacent to what is now Israel? Does history tell us one has more right to the land than the other? I dont think so. There is certainly "hatred" of Palestinians by Jewish Israelis.
Many, like me, believe that Israel gets unfair advantage due to the nature of our political system in the USA. Name one rich Palestinian who contributes to political re-election campaigns. And if there is one, is there a block of them? What if there was? Might there be a different sentiment among our politicians?
Why do Christian American politicians speak so fondly of Israel? Beats me. But I can take a guess.
This is not a discussion I like to have for many reasons. And I won't be coming back here to read anyone else's comments. I've tried to touch on some aspects of how I have viewed the events of history as they concern the Jewish people and how I might think they formed their roots in peoples minds. But I haven't tried to put my finger on it and say "this is the reason".http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc502b16bb3f74307000005PhantomriderTue, 29 May 2012 13:09:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc502b16bb3f74307000005
Jews have been hated for centuries. First, because they set themselves above all other humans as being God's chosen people.
Second, because God allegedly promised the patriarch Abraham a land, the Promised Land, they went on to occupy land already occupied by others. This type of activity has spawned wars of reprisal from the very beginning of man's existence.
Third, those of us who do not believe in a hierarchical God and Heaven do not believe in either of two religions founded on a real estate dispute between the occupiers and the usurpers.
Fourth Jews defend to the last shekel their property rights and then express righteous indignation when others do the same. Fifth any discussion of anything critical, the word critical is not meant maliciously in this context, is immediately labeled anti Semitic. Problems in the US which are purely domestic if they come against Jewish interest do not get solved and fester.
Fifth, while it is monstrous that six million Jews were executed in concentration camps, no word is spoken of the 12 -20 million Russians killed by the Nazis, of which people of Jewish origin probably comprised a significant number. If a people can not show mercy to others suffering the same fate as themselves, they have no right to expect mercy from others.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc502796bb3f7727f00000dJohn111Tue, 29 May 2012 13:08:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc502796bb3f7727f00000d
Your 6 million figure for the holocaust is a complete fabrication and untrue. The official numbers from the Red Cross and the Auschwitz concentration camp list the figure between 200,000 and 1.5 million. This is the stated and status quo number used and listed in memorial plaques, so please respect the truth, and report accurate historical figures Joe.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50260eab8eab25300000aemerik3Tue, 29 May 2012 13:07:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50260eab8eab25300000a
You're insinuating Natalie Portman is a "Jew Hater"!
I can assure you that her lawyer will be in contact with your editor by lunch and this article will be removed. The idiot that wrote will be fired.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc502596bb3f75105000001STANTue, 29 May 2012 13:07:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc502596bb3f75105000001
Henry, people like to express hatred for certain ethnic groups because it gives them a sense of power over otherwise powerless circumstances. Stereotyping and attack of the other are tried and true political techniques engineered to entrench your support among the "masses" while simultaneously driving the "masses" against your opponent (whom you loudly proclaim is a "Jew-lover"). Focusing the attention of the mass of people on some immutable characteristic (real or imagined) of that which they are supposed to hate also draws their attention and any scrutiny AWAY from you and your cronies.
For the most part, people pick on the Jews because, to them, they are an easy target for scorn from people who mostly suck at life. Why?
1) Jews have their own God--and it's not your God either although you are subject to it's whims. Not to blame the victim here, but Jews, by trying to stay very true to the Pentateuch, are always separatists from non-Jews. Not gonna do your thing, will only do my thing WITHOUT COMPROMISE!! Some people take this behavior as an affront to their own method of living and are insulted when Jews won't budge on the no-pork thing, or the no eating before sundown on the Sabbath thing, or the circumcision thing, or the no shellfish thing, or the Jesus is not the messiah thing. Pick a thing that is unique to Jewish worship and there is someone who will have an issue with it because they are projecting this behavior to be an indictment of their own. It is and it isn't but that's not the point. The point is no one has a strong bead on spirituality and faith, no matter how many people swear that God wrote 10 laws on stone tablets and no one wrote any before Moses parted the Red Sea. Simply put, the air with which many devout Jews carry themselves just rubs many non-Jews the wrong way and makes it easy for them to do nothing while someone is attacing a Jew for just being a Jew. Bottom line--The strict exercise of Jewish faith has a side effect of making the faithful unlikeable by Jews and non-Jews (just listen to an Hasidic Jew, an Orthodox Jew, and a Chabad Jew arguing over who is more Jewish while a Jew who eats bacon rolls her eyes, and you'll know what I mean).
2) Jews stick together--in 1798, when most God-fearing Christian White people were sticking together in the New World to deny rights to Africans, hardly a peep was heard about their solidarity, but get a few Jews in a room to talk Seder and OH MY FUCKING GOD, ITS A ZIONIST CONSPIRACY!!! BURN THEM AT THE STAKE!! In a reference to my low hanging fruit statement above, it's easy to sigle out Jews for harassment because they stick together. Sure, after the God-fearing White Christian folk who mindlessly followed Joseph R. McCarthy started calling every Jew a Communist because they fled Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, East Germany and any other Communist country (because communists are atheists) and Jews in America started changing their names to be able to feed their families, its easy to see how those damned Jews stick together, buddy!! But all that stuff was a cover so that Jews could continue to hide their moneymaking secrets from the WASPy public at large. Doing well in school, studying late at night, going to Yeshiva instead of P.S. 14, and having demanding parents who laid a guilt trip on you thicker than a schmear of cream cheese at Katz's had nothing to do with Jewish success at all--it was all they secrets learned from sticking together (kinda like Anne Frank's family).
3) ISRAEL!! Nuff said--bum rush a country during the Second Egyptian Dynasty, take it over from local nomadic tribes, and declare it to be your promised land because the one true God said so. For some reason the Germans, French, Spanish. British, Americans, Russians, and everyone else gets bent out of shape by Israel. Never mind that Israel was created by those same powers out of the remnants of a very disorganized Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Arabia--now it seems that the Jews must be hated for taking the land that was reserved for them by NATO after WWII. The Russian hatred of Israel is least understandable because that's where they sent all their Jews. Maybe Russia was miffed that it was unable to win an arms race without the mathematicians it was exiling to that small desert nation.
Anyway, the real reason that people hate Jews is because they are shallow, superficial, solipsistically inferior, and would rather lash out at someone else than spend one iota of time improving themselves.
Hate is easy-love is hard. Give love today.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc502476bb3f76005000007Jeff BussgangTue, 29 May 2012 13:07:19 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc502476bb3f76005000007
There is a long history of anti-semitism, that dates back to early Christianity, the Crusades and the anti-semitic myths around the death of Christ. The definitive book on this topic, called "A Convenient Hatred: A History of Anti-Semitism", was just published by an educational non-profit called Facing History and Ourselves. To learn more, go to: <a href="http://bit.ly/M2LHXd" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/M2LHXd</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5022aeab8eacf53000001DiscriminationTue, 29 May 2012 13:06:50 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5022aeab8eacf53000001
Jews always prefer to hire jews, to buy from jews. It is obvious discrimination. Sometimes it is mafia.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50218eab8ea3956000005dasdasTue, 29 May 2012 13:06:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50218eab8ea3956000005
Henry - I happen to have been perusing some articles on Al Jazeera's website. From reading the comments there, it becomes clear that many religious Muslims are taught, or indoctrinated, to hate the Jews. They also hate Christians and the USA. Some of those reader posts are really bizarre.
Here are a couple recent excerpts:
"the jewish bankers control every major bank in the western world ,it is a fact and not a conspiracy .you are either naive or a denier .you can go and do your home work ,before you answer me next time . Islam will solve every problem that the world is facing today"
"what kind of democracy are you talking about ,the democracy of the west ? where your politicians have become a servants of the jewish bankers .the rothchilds families control every capitalist country in the world ,where they have imposed usury in every bank in the west ,and they have been sucking the blood of the tax payer's money for decades .your bankers have created the credit crunch and have indebted millions of souls in the world ,but their gamble have backlash on them ,as a result they have lost trillions all round the world .however your politicians came to their rescue and bailed out these banks with trillions of tax payer's money ,and you call that a freedom and democracy.furthermore muslim women have been refused the right to wear veil and burka in these so called nations of liberty .by the way ,i am a UK citizen ,and i am not egyptian ,i am algerian ,but nothing seperate me from my brothers in egypt ,and will support them fully .islam is the solution to everything and greed has no place in the muslim umah ."
".islam profers solutions to all problems initiated by the Jews and the Christian. The Muslim Brotherhood are needed at this crucial time in the history of egypt"
"if you think i am an antisemitic ,because i call israel an illegal state and since this nation was created ,the world has witness injustice ,crimes ,wars ,greed ,coup d'etat and many other mischiefs ,and if that make me antisemitic than i am prepare to take the label .regarding the 9/11 ,you must be one of the very few westerner who still believe that the new york terrorist attack were perpetrated by a group of arabs from the middle east .all the evidence are pointing out towards your jewish lobbies and your secret services ,and the US government were aware .i have dealt with subject before ,and produced evidence beyond any doiute that 9/11 had nothing to do with muslims or arabs "http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5020eecad045c5f000002WorldPeaceTue, 29 May 2012 13:06:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5020eecad045c5f000002
Honestly I think its because Jews are very successful but still seem to complain about everything (such as the title to this post). Most Jews aren't visibly Jewish anyway. Also having lived within the Orthodox community for three years (as an outsider) it pains me to say that it would be very easy to not like them. They are just rude and don't acknowledge or give common curtesy to others etc. I truly believe Jews (self described chosen ones) don't like other people and its just karma.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5020769beddd875000005PhantomriderTue, 29 May 2012 13:06:15 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5020769beddd875000005
Jews have been hated for centuries, First because thy setmthemselves above all other humans being God's chosen people. Second because God allegedly promied the patriarch Abraham a land, the Promised Land, they went on to occupy land already occupied by others. This type of activitynhas spawned wars from the very beginning of man's existence. Third those of us who do not believe in a hiearchical Gd and Heaven do not believe two religionsfounded on a real estate didput between the occupiers and the usurpers. Fourth Jews defend to the last shekel their rproperty rights and then express righteous indignation when others do the same. Fifth any discusiion of anything crritical, the wor citical is not ment maliciously in this context, is immediately labeled anti semitic. Problems in the US which are purely domestic if they come againt Jewish interst do not get solved and fester.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc501be69beddc370000006Yesac13Tue, 29 May 2012 13:05:02 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc501be69beddc370000006
One aspect I have noted:
People may think this way: Jews = Banksters. Silly, I know but think about it.
People hate bankers for reasons you all know. A significant minority of bankers are Jews. They are noticeable. Take the Rothschilds and Goldman Sach's Lloyd Blankfein for example.
Jews always were a minority, a nation-less people. In times of stress, people love to scrapegoat the minorities and Jews were a nice target. It doesn't help that Jews were among the noticeable bankers so that made Jews even more of a target even though most Jews are NOT in the banking business. Think about Weimar Germany. Germans went broke and it is said that German Jews generally did better than the gentile German (not Jew). That along with general hatred of banking may be one reason why the Nazis made a target of the Jews.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5019aeab8eae54d000015adamrsweetTue, 29 May 2012 13:04:26 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5019aeab8eae54d000015
It's religious. People of different religious groups hate each other.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50190ecad04cd5c000003Patty KakesTue, 29 May 2012 13:04:16 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50190ecad04cd5c000003
Jews believe themselves to be THE Chosen People of God, meaning a Jew is raised to believe that every non-Jew is second hand rubbish in the eyes of God and will always remain so. Kind of hard to like a people who look at you as a second-rate human merely because you're not a Jew. But-for the religious justification behind this narrow-mindedness, some might say this attitude is bigotry. Some people don't like bigots.
I await the posts criticizing me for my "bigotry" in refusing to believe that Jews are inherently better than non-Jews, and which demand that I take full responsibility for the Holocaust because I was raised a Christian.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5018969beddf370000002Madeleine GallayTue, 29 May 2012 13:04:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5018969beddf370000002
dear Liberals etc ...
just to let you know that I am a witch and have placed a small spell in which your hair will fall out, the words HATER will appear on your forehead and you will consistently lose money in the stock market.
Have a nice day.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50180eab8eaf85000000aSteve ShoemakerTue, 29 May 2012 13:04:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50180eab8eaf85000000a
In part - some are just jealous. Jews as a people are God's chosen race. The Law and the Messiah came through them. All other races have to take a back seat to that and can't do anything about it. Simple minds will be jealous.
Primarily, it's demonic. The Lord will return when they acknowledge their offense and accept the truth that they are currently (partially) blinded to. The one whom they pierced is their long waited for Messiah. Satan and his ilk are working to eliminate the Jew. If no Jews are here to acknowledge their offense, Messiah can't return. They believe they can thwart the plans of God.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5014569bedd1f73000004TonyTue, 29 May 2012 13:03:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5014569bedd1f73000004
In BC there wasn't such thing as hate to Jews. It appeared in AD. Jews killed Christ, of cource. Religious people up until now may still tell these stories, therefore Jews are hated.
And then there is second wave of Jew haters. A bunch of paranoid people thinking that Jews are taking over the world. I have one guy here at work. He is not a jew hater but he thinks that Rockefellers are doing some world conspiracy with their money. I asked him, what conspiracy Bill Gates does or Exxon Mobil founders?
Ironic is that Jews are hated for the very character that makes people succesfull. Jews are inheretently smart, love money. The traditionalists, they give their children good education. Not often you hear about Jewish killer. They do commit crimes byt those normally related to big $$$. And still, most of Jews are good people.
Now, Ortodox Jews are different even by Jewish measure. They don't even care about what happen to the rest of Jews. To understand all kinds of Jews I would suggest to read book "From Beirut to Jerusalem" by Thomas Friedman.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5013b6bb3f7d602000009IdeasTue, 29 May 2012 13:02:51 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5013b6bb3f7d602000009
An interesting question, I wish BI supported a commenting community that were up to answering it. Anyway, my thoughts:
*Historical lack of assimilation. People hate those who are "other" or foreign, and Jews--especially the observant, orthodox variety--have historically stood out as "other" in Europe and America on the basis of culture, religion, diet, and other customs.
*They are exclusive, and call themselves God's Chosen People. If you have reason to be envious or intrigued by Christians or Islams through history, they have welcomed (and often forced) conversion--Jews has rejected other groups as fundamentally inferior, which inspires a negative backlash.
*Wealth. Christian and Islamic religious practices historically have limited and forbade money-lending activities, opening a lucrative niche for Jews who were exempt from these rulings. Add the fact that people historically have not understood interest well, and that banks and money lending lead to animosity every down cycle no matter who the loans are from, and you have a recipe for disaster. The Nazis came to power after the greatest down cycle ever in the Great Depression.
*Secondary impact of wealth and insularity - Jewish wealth and insularity has helped them dominate professions that in turn promote enmity, most notably Hollywood. Very, very few people get to be famous actors or singers. That Jews are so present throughout the industry and that Jews are so wildly over-represented among professional performers promotes enmity among those who failed to realize their dream--which is almost everyone who dreams of becoming an actor or singer. It's hard for people to understand why Mayim Bialik has been on two major sitcoms and their own beautiful and talented daughter ended up working at the Spearmint Rhino because she couldn't get more than irregular commercial work.
*Victimhood/ignorance - The Holocaust was 70 years ago, and a lot of people don't really understand it. Assuming someone else is proclaiming victimhood against you (even if they are in reality just promoting awareness) for something someone else did generations ago that you don't really understand aggravates people who can't conceive of that historical horror.
Those are my quick thoughts. The existence of Israel is obviously also an issue for many in the Middle East.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc501286bb3f7577b000019not_a_jewTue, 29 May 2012 13:02:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc501286bb3f7577b000019
People don't need much reason to hate. The easiest to hate is anyone who is different than what you're used to. People who look different, eat different, dress different, worship different, talk different, think different, etc., are all easy targets for hate.
Anyone who is more or less successful than you is an easy subject of hate, be it envy or contempt.
I don't think Jews are particularly singled out. They are, however, an empowered minority, and are vocal and vehement in their opposition to their persecution, real or perceived. That intensifies the hatred among the haters. How long would it take for a "Muslim Defense League" to be branded a terrorist organization?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50119ecad04da5c000006blastTue, 29 May 2012 13:02:17 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc50119ecad04da5c000006
Jews rejected Jesus. If Jews don't recognize their own messiah which they
predicted then it weaken Christianity.
Christianity and Islam banned Usury. So Jews were able to
do banking thus establish power.
Jews also went into occupations like Theater, Movies, Nuclear Science
were looked down by the majority but became very popular later on
so they again had more power than the majority likes its minorities to be.
Funny part is that Islam is offshoot of Samaritan (Jewish sect) so Muslims
don't like to reminded of that and all the other things they borrowed from Judaism.
More can be said but it is too much for little minds to handle.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc500f46bb3f74f7d00000aPatty KakesTue, 29 May 2012 13:01:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc500f46bb3f74f7d00000a
Jews believe themselves to be THE Chosen People of God, meaning a Jew is raised to believe that every non-Jew is second hand rubbish in the eyes of God and will always remain so. Kind of hard to like a people who look at you as a second-rate human merely because you're not a Jew. But-for the religious justification behind this narrow-mindedness, some might say this attitude is bigotry. Some people don't like bigots.
I await the posts criticizing me for my "bigotry" in refusing to believe that Jews are inherently better than non-Jews, and which demand that I take full responsibility for the Holocaust because I was raised a Christian.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc500b1ecad04895800000bAndrew HallTue, 29 May 2012 13:00:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc500b1ecad04895800000b
I wish I could "thumbs up" this one, Greg; and you said a lot that was wonderful about how Jewish success is often feared and hated.
That being said, the Rothschilds run a great deal more of the world than you are willing to give them credit for.
They run a great deal of the banking sector in Israel - it could be argued that Lord Evelyn Rothschild has more power than even Netanyahu or Sharon ever did - and have massive sway and influence with both major political parties in America, mostly through the Rockefellers. There is a great deal of Zionist influence in Britain's old-money financial sectors as well. They have routinely lobbied for all of America's current and highly unpopular wars, and I can certainly tell you from my own experience that a tremendous amount of the hate against Jews as a whole is out there because of a backlash against Rothschild shadow power.
I am not trying to foster hate, but trying to insist that the Rothschilds are not a big part of the problem is not a full discussion of the issue, in my opinion. Ordinary Jews are blamed for what they do.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5007f6bb3f7fc02000001John111Tue, 29 May 2012 12:59:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5007f6bb3f7fc02000001
What nonsense article. The persecution of Jews across history, (albeit not any more significant than other races, such as Aboriginals and Africans), has been largely due to their large influence in society despite being such a small minority. What people are most opposed to is not Jewishness, but rather ZIONISM, and the real holocaust, against Palestinians. Joe, have you read the Talmud? Perhaps you will understand why Zionism and the hypocrisy of many Jews in killing Arabs seems to go against all ethical and moral principles. As with any religion, there is always going to be extremists, and Judaism is no exception. For this reason America must stand against the undue influence of foreign powers and beware of the large influence wielded by a small minority.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5005cecad04cf5c000002Mohammed HajililikijilijilkiTue, 29 May 2012 12:59:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc5005cecad04cf5c000002
It good debate. Many reason. Want to hear all.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4ff9decad047b54000026POntius Tue, 29 May 2012 12:55:57 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4ff9decad047b54000026
Allowing and encouraging currency competition might help. Not insinuating people who owe fiat they should have never been in the position to borrow (with interest) are enslaved and can't be released might help. Banning usury and the creation of currency that is specially designed for usury, also. Be productive. Don't be slick and try to live off others' labor. Or the ones who already live by these beliefs can take are of the bad apples for us.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4ff99eab8ea174b000004Lori ScribnerTue, 29 May 2012 12:55:53 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4ff99eab8ea174b000004
Jews have been persecuted for centuries. I mean, let's take the Bible for example. It started with the Romans, then the Crusades, everyone wanted to take control and make the Jewish homeland their "Holy Land." History does mean something, but history aside, "haters gonna hate." The people that hate Jews probably also hate Muslims, Blacks, immigrants in generals, etc. Hate is an ugly word, a toxic emotion. People are taught to hate by their parents, and then they pass it down to their kids. What we need is a constant PSA campaign to stamp out hate and intolerance.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4ff8c6bb3f7ca02000001Beltway GregTue, 29 May 2012 12:55:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4ff8c6bb3f7ca02000001
Natalie Portman is Jewish and was born in Israel and speaks Hebrew.
Plus, she's one fine looking Jew.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4ff2decad048d57000004Andrew HallTue, 29 May 2012 12:54:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4ff2decad048d57000004
Anti-Jewish hatred mostly exists in the modern world, in my experience, where Zionism as an ideology is strong, and where ordinary Jews get blamed for the financial sector depredations and holy wars of hardline Zionists.
The Zionists have not had a lot of presence in India or China or Korea so far, nor on Indio (Native American) reservations.
It's not the WHOLE story - you have that subsection of radical Christianity that still blames every Jew in the world because the Pharisees had Christ killed, as well, I do recall being called an "Edomite usurper's descendant" (i.e. possible descendant of Herod) because I have Ashkenaz ancestry - but in modern times, I do believe this is a lot of it. The Zionists have not been good mixers with the rest of the world, and ordinary Jews are often blamed for it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4ff2469bedd116c00000aBeltway GregTue, 29 May 2012 12:53:56 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4ff2469bedd116c00000a
I'm .25 Jewish, probably more, but you would never suspect that I'm Jewish. I don't practice any religion but I have many Jewish friends. As a matter of fact a man that I consider to be closer than a father to me is Jewish so I'm fairly well indoctrinated in regard to all things Jewish. Jews understand family and sticking together. If you fail once in the Jewish community folks will get together and make sure you get another chance in business. They know that once you get your second or third chance you'll then reach out to those in the community and do the same. It's a knee jerk reaction among many Jews. It's admirable but feared. Why? Because people believe in the myth of the individual. The, "I did it my way." syndrome. No man is an island and the Jews understand that down to its core. Of course it helps that they've been marginalized since the dawn of time. (Protocols of Zion, etc.) The Rothschilds are at the core of practically every conspiracy theory. The ironic thing being is that if the Rothschilds ran the world it would probably function in a much more efficient fashion.
Jews are clannsih because history has taught them in both the short and long-term that entire societies can become murderous.
Will this ever happen again? Doubt it but the simple fear of Jewish success and intelligence born out of their inward fear of failure that drives many Jews to work till they drop and monetize their very existences is frightening to many who pray at the alter of hedonism. Even this might vanish in a couple of generations. Many would disagree but Jews don't want to wear the diamonds they want to sell the diamonds and we all know where the profitability resides.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4feeb69bedddc70000001RoryBellowsTue, 29 May 2012 12:52:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4feeb69bedddc70000001
The reason it is offensive is by crowdsourcing for an answer you give the entire premise legitimacy, as if the reasons are up for debate between reasonable people. The reasons behind people's racism are not interesting at all and certainly don't need to be debated. They deserve to be mocked.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4feea69beddd470000001Daniel RubinTue, 29 May 2012 12:52:58 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4feea69beddd470000001
This is a fair attempt, but it's not correct. The Jews were not merely a scapegoat in the wrong place at the wrong time. Hitler and the Nazis chose them for a reason. They hated the Jews in particular, because the Jews gave the world morality-based law.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fedeeab8ea284b000004AmericanTue, 29 May 2012 12:52:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fedeeab8ea284b000004
It's not the Tea Party that is trying to enforce a atheistic world view on the citizenry. That would be the Democrats.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fec5ecad04a258000003AnnaTarkovTue, 29 May 2012 12:52:21 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fec5ecad04a258000003
People also direct a lot of venom towards black people in online comments. Arab people. Women. I could go on. Have you also written posts about why those groups are hated? It's an honest question.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4febaecad045b5400001fKenTue, 29 May 2012 12:52:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4febaecad045b5400001f
I believe it started because, if I have read correctly, they were the only ones out of the three major religions at the time to charge interest. That is practice usury. I think that was one of the reasons many that wealth at various points in history became concentrated in the Jewish community.
Furthermore they tended to be the minority in various countries. This wasn't so bad until those countries ran into either economic or environmental disasters. In more ignorant times and today it is always best to blame the foreigner's or those different than the majority.
Lastly, I think the formation of Israel and the fallout that came with it stirs many hearts.
I don't think the hatred is justified but I can surmise why it manifests in some hearts. No one seemed to mind when WASPS were the by far the wealthy majority in the U.S. However, now that the ranks are swelling with Jewish decent it is vastly changing to a conspiracy.
I am not a Jew by the way.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe7f69bedd326e000004RogerDTue, 29 May 2012 12:51:11 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe7f69bedd326e000004
I have lived a fair number of places around the world and must admit that the USA is the only lace I have lived where people who are different from each other don't and can't reasonably discuss those differences with each other. Political correctness, state sponsored ostracism through the mainstream media / universities / public schools, and the culture where "one must tolerate everything but intolerance" prevents these reasonable discussions and thus without discussion and understanding we get lack of understanding and hatred filling that void.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe6b6bb3f70579000044AmericanTue, 29 May 2012 12:50:51 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe6b6bb3f70579000044
Were the people in the original picture not Jewish? Why are we changing to a Hollywood starlet? I have a lot more respect for the gentlemen than for the starlet. Is this what Jews look like? Movie stars...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe636bb3f7457b000006BigfootTue, 29 May 2012 12:50:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe636bb3f7457b000006
Does this question have anything to do with your Weisenthal defense today, Henry? You might also ask Hindu Indians how they feel about their Muslim fellow citizens. Check out how Japan deals with its Burakumin population. People hate; it's a nasty instinct.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe58eab8ea534e000001seankonneryTue, 29 May 2012 12:50:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe58eab8ea534e000001
I read an article by Mark Twain recently, shown to me by my Rabbi, in which he is amazed at the phenomenon of the Jew. Twain asked a similar question as yours, Henry. How can it be that the Jew is the most persecuted people and for the longest time on the face of the earth, yet this people still exists in the same wholesome form for thousands of years? He concludes that it must be that the Jew is special and above nature, albeit chosen by God, (which comes with a big responsibilty, of coure, I might add).http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe5469beddea6b00000bBeanieTue, 29 May 2012 12:50:28 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe5469beddea6b00000b
Mr Henry I don't think the pic was inappropriate ...........if you were comfy with the topic then pic wasn't a big deal..........
Anyway I don't think the people who hate Jews hate the ones like Natalie portmanhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe40ecad04615400000eMedia has the powerTue, 29 May 2012 12:50:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe40ecad04615400000e
Why does anyone hate anyone? The media has the power to spin and generate emotional reactions and people are stupid enough to fall for it. Just look at the Bieber story on Drudge saying Bieber has lost it. We do NOT know what happened. Bieber was probably provocateured into anger but what is really Interesting is the pictures they have released show Bieber with DEMONIC eyes...clearly photoshopped and people on the websites at Drudge are saying he looks evil. Others have fallen into the immediate "get himout of the US" statements... knee jerk reactions and the media pulls the strings. The majority of posted comments suggest they are dumb as rocks. It's photoshopped.
Media Mission Accomplished.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe39ecad044c54000005NewtTue, 29 May 2012 12:50:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe39ecad044c54000005
As far as organized religions go; the only religion that does not include giving to the less fortunate is the Jewish religion. A common stereotype of Jewish people is that they are stingy with money, and value money more than things like friendship with non-Jewish people. Of course this is a stereotype but unfortunately many stereotypes are based in truth.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe30ecad049c58000002Daniel RubinTue, 29 May 2012 12:49:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe30ecad049c58000002
I thought it made the question of how to explain anti-Semitism that much more challenging. Anyone can answer, "because they look like that!" But it's a terrible answer -- the Amish look like that too and no one hates them.
Having said that, a picture of Natalie Portman raises its own challenges...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe10ecad044d54000006BigfootTue, 29 May 2012 12:49:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fe10ecad044d54000006
Does this question have anything to do with your Weisenthal defense today, Henry? You might also ask Hindu Indians how they feel about their Muslim fellow citizens. Check out how Japan deals with its Burakumin population. People hate; it's a nasty instinct.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fddb69bedd116c000002AllenTue, 29 May 2012 12:48:27 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fddb69bedd116c000002
Totally agree!! I was visiting and they think all other people are stupid not just asians. Jews think they they are inferior beingshttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fdb369bedda769000005Oy veyTue, 29 May 2012 12:47:47 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fdb369bedda769000005
This thread is going to get ugly/deleted quickly but in the interest of fostering discussion
I taught at a Yeshiva and have jewish cousins. I have no problems with jewish people. I do object to orthodox jewish culture and much of what it teaches about how to interact with the world and those who don't share your beliefs. I also have problems with catholicism and evangelists for similar reasons. That doesn't make me someone who "hates jews" anymore than I'm a catholic or evangelist "hater".
This is a poorly thought out, poorly worded thread. I'm disappointed you didn't approach this with more forethought.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fdad69bedda46900000aDaniel RubinTue, 29 May 2012 12:47:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fdad69bedda46900000a
Hitler hated the Jews because the Jews canonized and institutionalized the very thing he despised: a concept of universal law premised on an obligation to love your fellow man. Hitler and the Nazis hated the ideas of a conscience, of any feeling of duty for someone else, of any concept of guilt. That was the whole point of the Aryan race: that they should take their rightful place as rulers of the world, which meant eradicating all lesser peoples without feeling any remorse along the way. The Jews represented the exact opposite concept. So the Nazis wanted to get rid of them first and foremost. Then, having established themselves as the world’s superior race, they would be free to live a conscience-free, morality-free existence.
I don’t think modern-day European genteel anti-Semitism is animated by quite the same dynamic. I think the explanation there is more of a dual impulse of guilt over allowing the Holocaust to take place in their midst and vindication (in their minds) that the Jews are no better. They love to cast the Arab terrorists as the underdog and Israel as the aggressor because it lets them pretend that the Jews would have carried out the Holocaust too, had they had the opportunity. Guilt assuaged.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fda66bb3f7d278000006Andrew HallTue, 29 May 2012 12:47:34 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fda66bb3f7d278000006
Refusing to discuss this issue only makes the hatred worse. Do you deny that this kind of hatred exists?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fd926bb3f7087900000dAmericanTue, 29 May 2012 12:47:14 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fd926bb3f7087900000d
Or Americans? I don't think the vast majority of Americans dislike Jews. In fact I don't think they think about Jews much at all. And when they do it's usually because of something happening in the Middle East.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fd50ecad044c5200000aLiberals Are Lying Racist Hypocrite LosersTue, 29 May 2012 12:46:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fd50ecad044c5200000a
Because liberals are just hateful people if you dont agree with their political views....that s why they are such phony Losershttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fd3e6bb3f72e7b000002VenomTue, 29 May 2012 12:45:50 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fd3e6bb3f72e7b000002
This is one of those posts you just don't touch. Remember Arsenio? I sure do.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fd3decad04505400000eJerry STue, 29 May 2012 12:45:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fd3decad04505400000e
What is the DEAL with Antisemitism?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fd3869bedd2d6900000cBlack LibertarianismTue, 29 May 2012 12:45:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fd3869bedd2d6900000c
Henry, I think its a western culture thing boiling down to two things religion and money. For millenia in western Christianity, it was erroneously taught that "Jews killed the Christian messiah", and so they were discrimminated and abused, locked out of many careers so they excelled at financial careeers, and of course had to be smart and inventive in terms of business to simply survive the persecution. So as I read it as with evolution, they evolved business and financial skills, that their Christian neighbors did not because of the "usuraay" interpretations in the Bible, and the no charging interest thing in the Koran. So in the West, the Jews got taggged with supposedly killing the messiah, and people were jealous of their financial success that grew out of them not having a cchoice but to be jiggy in getting their paper. In the Middle East, them rejecting islam and Muhammad as a Prophet, and keeping their own prophets spelled out in their torah did not wim them many friends in the Muslm world either, So basically, I think Anti-Semitism stems from religious indoctrination, the Jews, being themselves and not converting to the majority religion of the time whether it be Christianity or islam, and getting paper like Henry Blodget does. its jealousy so to the Hebrew peeps in the audience I can only say continue to get your paper, shake off the haters, lol.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fd2eecad043d52000022Andrew HallTue, 29 May 2012 12:45:34 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fd2eecad043d52000022
As an American with Jewish ancestry, let me give my take on this :
I believe anti-Semitism persists because a very small subset of Judaism - very specifically, Zionists and some of the hardline Haredim - is composed of very selfish, very mentally unwell people who lie and cheat and steal for their own self-aggrandizement - and then all Jews are blamed for this.
The Zionists are TERRIBLE. They murder and cheat and kill and steal and abuse Arabs (not that the Arabs treat them any better - but still, it does go both ways) - they break the Commandments regularly, they are not following their own rules in any way that matters, and they threaten EVERYONE who disagrees with them. Even with Jewish ancestry myself, I have been personally threatened by American and Israeli Zionists several times for taking the position that the expulsions of Palestinians from Israel in 1948 was wrong and that the IDF treats Palestinians unethically at present as well.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus</a>
But what you get is people who cannot distinguish between Zionism - a fundamentalist ideology of bigotry and occupation that supports religious war and discrimination - and the larger Judaism - which is a wonderful faith when practiced as it is written, with prohibitions against killing, lying, and stealing, and which exhorts people to treat others as they would wish to be treated.
Jews are not alone in this. The modern backlash against Christianity dates to these new Crusades started by fundamentalists in the U.S. government against Muslim countries - but most Christians are not anything like the psychotic generals who believe they are arbiters of God's law. Islam is routinely derided for its support for jihadism and for child marriage - but in my experience, most Muslims are peaceful people and in fact take a hard line against the sexual abuse of children. It happens with minorities, too - I routinely see commenters on BI and other sites blame all blacks because some blacks are violent and/or criminal, or Latinos for the same thing, never once discussing the millions of peaceful and hardworking blacks and Latinos who help the world go around and love their families, day after day.
The solution is that people HAVE to be taught NOT to blame every member of a group for the actions of its worst members. People are not their religions or their skin colors, nor are they all akin to the worst of what one reads about. Most people worldwide in ALL faiths and races, in my experience, are peaceful and hardworking, and should not be blamed just because a small subsection of others who share their faith or race break the social contract.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fcf66bb3f74c7b000002BeanieTue, 29 May 2012 12:44:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fcf66bb3f74c7b000002
Wow.......a bold topic from mr Henry.
Well my view is, there is always somebody who hates somebody else............for example like ...some people hate Arabs , some people hate Christians.........and the people who hate a whole race just because they don't like a few people from that race and stereotype the whole race aren't in a sound state of mind........or at least can't be trusted for their judgements.........
It's time for humans to rise above this race and religion division and acknowledge each other as part of the same race i.e humanity. There can only be two types of human beings either good or bad...........and that doesn't depend on which parent you were born.........it depends on your decision making and the choices you make..............http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fcd9eab8ea8048000005JakeTue, 29 May 2012 12:44:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fcd9eab8ea8048000005
*Please read* (Not to sound racist) but on my experiences are Jew's are "hoarders" they don't contribute much to society and keeps most of the stash away for own jewish community. They are cheap and pay very little especially towards asian workers because they know asians will hard for less money. If you don't believe this check out "ALL" the law firms run by jews and yes I meant ALL or 98% of them. You will see asians working for them.
If have time doi a research or please do visit Chinatown, NY and Flushing, New York for a sample of concrete evidence.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fcad6bb3f72379000005naroTue, 29 May 2012 12:43:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fcad6bb3f72379000005
GET THIS THREAD OFF MR. BLODGET. What is eating you today? Are you in trouble with the law again?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fc7decad043552000004Rent needs to be PaidTue, 29 May 2012 12:42:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fc7decad043552000004
Dave Hunter on May 29, 12:32 PM said:
Henry asking this question BEFORE having answers to why people hate at all is plainly not smart.
There are many potential reasons for hatred: religious, brainwashing, envy, xenophobia etc
The same applies to hatred of Jews, Muslims, Blacks, Whites, Red Headed, Irish, etc etc
So the question is good for eliciting web traffic and venom but bad otherwise.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fc7869bedd7f69000006theBearJTue, 29 May 2012 12:42:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fc7869bedd7f69000006
Henry, did you guys run out of nip-slips and katy perry cleavage shots to use as click bait today? get real man.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fbb6ecad044b5200000aEduardTue, 29 May 2012 12:39:18 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fbb6ecad044b5200000a
Jealousy and resentment for being successful.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fb8deab8ea2b48000001alaw35Tue, 29 May 2012 12:38:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fb8deab8ea2b48000001
The Jews have always been the whipping boy of Christians who believe they killed their God. Also, with the creation of Israel the Arabs in large part now hate the Jews. Look at Israel and what they have done as compared to most Arab countries from a standard of living and prosperity. Also, education is key to the Jews and a lot of haters are not highly intelligent people leading to bigotry. And of course, you all showing a picture of Jews who are the extreme minority of Jews shows your bigotry as well.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fb79eab8ea3d48000003ParadiseTue, 29 May 2012 12:38:17 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fb79eab8ea3d48000003
The question is not "why' . The question is who. Once you know who hates the Jews, the question as to why will be self-explanatory.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fb61eab8eaf642000003Drew Reid KerrTue, 29 May 2012 12:37:53 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fb61eab8eaf642000003
I think this photograph will exacerbate what people who don't know any better think Jews look like. I think it also plays to a stereotype. Try dropping by Kosher Deluxe on West 46th Street some time during lunch -- I don't think you'll see anybody who looks like the people portrayed in the photograph.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fb4deab8ea4e45000015RZ1849Tue, 29 May 2012 12:37:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fb4deab8ea4e45000015
I think it largely has to do with the fact that for much of history, Jews had no homeland. Jews were minorities in EVERY country they lived in, and continue to be everywhere except for Israel.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fb336bb3f7857400000dKFSalisburyTue, 29 May 2012 12:37:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fb336bb3f7857400000d
Historically, Jews have had religious traditions and doctrines that have allowed them to thrive (or at least survive) where others have struggled. That combined with being members of a highly visible minority is sufficient.
During the Black Plague, Jews washed themselves more often than once a year, which reduced their infection rate; they were blamed.
Due to Christian bans on usury, they were inevitably the money lenders; they were blamed.
It goes on.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fb32eab8ea4748000001DMTue, 29 May 2012 12:37:06 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fb32eab8ea4748000001
My answer would be that people don't hate jews. I don't even think Hitler really hated Jews as much as he used them as a convenient excuse to give his people a scapegoat to rally against (Great Depression / hyperinflation / WWI aftermath) and thus consolidated his power. People need something to rally against to stay united. Look at the USA, we were at our best when we had the USSR to rally against... But now look at us. We have been a slow-motion train wreck of a divisive, culturally degenerative society ever since the Soviet Union ceased to give us purpose and unity.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa9a69bedd0267000001DGTue, 29 May 2012 12:34:34 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa9a69bedd0267000001
Agreed, the hasidim live in a different world than most Jews, including myself. I have asked myself this question many times as well; while Jews are certainly not the only people to be persecuted throughout history, Jews do seem to catch a lot of flack.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa94ecad045052000002AnnaTarkovTue, 29 May 2012 12:34:28 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa94ecad045052000002
Try reading a book once in a while. Maybe start with this one: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Antisemitism-Longest-Robert-Solomon-Wistrich/dp/0805210148" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Antisemitism-Longest-Robert-Solomon-Wistrich/dp/0805210148</a>
Also, is this really the best way to address this question? Don't you have any Jewish friends? Couldn't you just Google it? If this is just linkbait, well, I guess that's what you guys do here.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa586bb3f78474000020naroTue, 29 May 2012 12:33:28 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa586bb3f78474000020
What does it have to do with this business web site. Do you want to attract every nazi on the blagosphere. Get this thread off. Are you mentally ill?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa4b69bedde366000001IvanTue, 29 May 2012 12:33:15 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa4b69bedde366000001
I object to the wording of the question, for it implies ubiquity. The Jews are not hated by all people. Perhaps you want to ask, "Why do some people and/or groups hate Jews?"http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa49eab8ea4e4500000cjamie_crozierTue, 29 May 2012 12:33:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa49eab8ea4e4500000c
I think you can only get an answer to this if you allow people who hate Jews to answer, even if as expected their answers are shallow, mean spirited and prejudice - these are the real answers to that question. There are no justifiable reasons and as such only those who hold those prejudice views can answer the question. "People" don't hate Jews, only "people who hare Jews" hate Jews.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa296bb3f7bf76000001parvTue, 29 May 2012 12:32:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa296bb3f7bf76000001
jews have been targeted by christians because of religious reasons - blamed for killing Jesus - and then they were only allowed to be money lenders - not another favourite pastime. During the Medieval period Jews were generally better treated by the Muslim empire than in Europe.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa0c69bedddc66000003Lee KaplanTue, 29 May 2012 12:32:12 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa0c69bedddc66000003
Jealousy.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa03eab8eaa440000007Dave HunterTue, 29 May 2012 12:32:03 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4fa03eab8eaa440000007
Henry asking this question BEFORE having answers to why people hate at all is plainly not smart.
There are many potential reasons for hatred: religious, brainwashing, envy, xenophobia etc
The same applies to hatred of Jews, Muslims, Blacks, Whites, Red Headed, Irish, etc etc
So the question is good for eliciting web traffic and venom but bad otherwise.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4f9ee69bedd3462000015Crime and PunishmentTue, 29 May 2012 12:31:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4f9ee69bedd3462000015
Where's the button to mark this whole post as offensive?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4f9c7eab8ea4745000001HypocritesTue, 29 May 2012 12:31:03 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4f9c7eab8ea4745000001
No, the question should have been phrased: why does the tea party hate jews and all minorities.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4f9b369bedd6762000010RoryBellowsTue, 29 May 2012 12:30:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4f9b369bedd6762000010
A: Crowdsourcing views on minorities.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4f9a169bedd3962000008Drew Reid KerrTue, 29 May 2012 12:30:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4f9a169bedd3962000008
Henry: While I take this entirely seriously and think this is a worthwhile, topic, I'm just wondering why you chose this particular photograph to represent Jews? I ask this because I don't believe most Jews are Hasidic or dress like this.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4f97d6bb3f79574000004parvTue, 29 May 2012 12:29:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4fc4f97d6bb3f79574000004
do indians hate jews? do the chinese or koreans hate jews? do the native americans hate jews?